Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884-December 26, 1972) 33rd Vice President of the United States
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“I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don’t want to do and like it.” — Harry Truman
Vice President No Vice President in 1946. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd POTUS, died on April 12, 1945 of a cerebral hemorrhage. Truman, the Vice President in 1945, succeeded Roosevelt to the Presidency. Truman did not have a Vice President for the remainder of Roosevelt’s term from 1945 to 1949.
World events
• Indian pacifist and leader Mahatma Gandhi is murdered by a Hindu extremist • Israel is declared an independent state • The Land Rover Series I is shown for the first time at the Amsterdam Car Show • Apartheid begins in South Africa • Western European Treaty is signed • UN creates the World
Health Organization (WHO) • UN General Assembly adopts the universal Declaration of Human Rights • Polio increases around the world • U.S. and Great Britain begin massive airlift of food, water and medicine to the Western Berlin following the Soviet Blockade • Burma gains independence • Sri Lanka gains independence from Great Britain
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Inventions U.S. news
• NASCAR holds its first race for modified stock cars at Daytona Beach • Truman ends racial segregation in the military • Planned Parenthood is founded • Alfred Kinsey publishes ‘Sexual Behavior in the Human Male’ • Population is 146,631,302 • George Garnow puts forth the Big Bang theory to explain the origin of the universe
Technology
• Polaroid Land camera invented • Velcro • Long playing records • Transistor radio • Game of Scrabble was introduced
Sports
• Cleveland over the Boston Braves for the World Series • NBA champs Baltimore Bullets over the Philadelphia Warriors • Babe Ruth dies
• Theory of quantum electrodynamics • Random Access Storage Devices
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